Ubuntu team announced the availability of final version of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf and all other flavors. Ubuntu 15.10 will be supported for 9 months for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin along with all other flavors, the final release of Ubuntu 15.10 Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products. Wily Werewolf final version includes most recent versions of core set of packages, notable changes: Linux kernel 4.2.x which added support for recent AMD Radeon GPUs; Intel Broxton support; F2FS file-system encryption support; NV-DIMM support, Boot service: systemd, Unity 7.3.3 has had many bugs fixed and new features added, Compiz brought various improvements, Firefox 41, LibreOffice 5.0.1, Chromium 45, Gnome platform 3.16, Mate is updated to 1.10, Support for the new Steam Controller, Thunderbird 38.2.0, Rhythmbox 3.2.1, GTK+ 3.16.7, Gnome System Monitor 3.16, Terminal 3.16.2, Nautilus 3.14.2, Gedit 3.10.4, Mesa 11.0.x, Xorg Server 1.17.x, Pulseaudio is updated paving the way for a move to Bluez5 next release, and latest versions for other applications; For Ubuntu Server: OpenStack 2015.2.0 and so on.

Official release announcement: "Codenamed 'Wily Werewolf', 15.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.
Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 4.2-based kernel, a switch to gcc-5, and much more. Ubuntu Desktop has seen incremental improvements, with newer versions of GTK and Qt, updates to major packages like Firefox and LibreOffice, and stability improvements to Unity.
Ubuntu Server 15.10 includes the Liberty release of OpenStack, alongside deployment and management tools that save devops teams time when deploying distributed applications - whether on private clouds, public clouds, x86, ARM, or POWER servers, or on developer laptops. Several key server technologies, from MAAS to juju, have been updated to new upstream versions with a variety of new features."

Checkout release notes of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf. If you want to upgrade to Ubuntu 15.10 Wily then follow this guide.

Highlights:

Linux Kernel 4.2.x

Boot Service SYSTEMD default

New Overlay scroll bar

Unity 7.3.3

Gnome 3.16

GTK 3.16.x Support

Locally Integrated Menus (LIM) can be enabled from Appearance settings

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